Consumer Mina Sharma says she has to buy gas repeatedly because half a cylinder does not last even a month.
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There is a shortage of LPG gas for cooking in the district headquarters of Rukum West and surrounding markets. Consumers are suffering because they are not getting half cylinders, and that too as per demand. For the past one or two months, a retailer in the market has been getting 5/5 cylinders of Rapti and Manakamana gas for sale per week. Since they get 5 to 10 cylinders per week, it is difficult to deliver as per customer demand, said Chandra Bahadur Khadka, a vendor in Khalanga Bazaar. ‘This time we got it after two weeks.’ As soon as the customers came to the shop, there was a stampede,’ he said, ‘Customers have been paying before the gas arrives. But how will we deliver it when there is no gas.’
Consumer Mina Sharma says that she has to buy it repeatedly as a half cylinder of gas does not last even for a month. ‘It has been 2 days since the gas at home ran out.’ I have visited all the shops in the market, but there is none. I have paid the money in one place. They said it will come by tomorrow, let's see.'
In the district, Asha Traders and Srishti Cold Store import Bheri gas from Rapti. Retailers, especially in the district headquarters area, buy from these two wholesalers. Regarding the gas shortage, Asha Traders proprietor Mohbir Khadka said that even though the cylinders are half the size, they take up the same space in the truck, so this problem has arisen because less gas has been imported to hilly areas like Rukum at the same cost.
'The company used to provide gas once a week, but now it is providing it twice a month as the price of oil has become high. 550 cylinders are received at a time. "It is natural that there is a shortage because the cylinders that used to be full at that time were half full," he added, "but we have tried our best not to bring the customers' kitchens to a state of closure. Now the prices of oil and gas have also come down. We hope that things will be easier in the next few days."
